[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH] ocfs2: free path in ocfs2_remove_inode_range()

Jeff Liu jeff.liu at oracle.com
Mon Aug 5 23:23:16 PDT 2013


On 08/02/2013 05:14 PM, Younger Liu wrote:

> In ocfs2_remove_inode_range(), there is a memory leak.
> The variable path has allocated memory with ocfs2_new_path_from_et(), 
> but it is not free.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Younger Liu <younger.liu at huawei.com>
> ---
>  fs/ocfs2/file.c |    1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/file.c b/fs/ocfs2/file.c
> index 833a09b..2d1a227 100644
> --- a/fs/ocfs2/file.c
> +++ b/fs/ocfs2/file.c
> @@ -1796,6 +1796,7 @@ static int ocfs2_remove_inode_range(struct inode *inode,
>  	ocfs2_truncate_cluster_pages(inode, byte_start, byte_len);
>  
>  out:
> +	ocfs2_free_path(path);
>  	ocfs2_schedule_truncate_log_flush(osb, 1);
>  	ocfs2_run_deallocs(osb, &dealloc);

This patch looks good to me.

Reviewed-by: Jie Liu <jeff.liu at oracle.com>

BTW, I found another similar problem at: ocfs2/move_extent.c->__ocfs2_move_extent()
with a simple `grep` against the source tree, will post a patch to fix it, would
you like to help review?

Thanks,
-Jeff




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